Ramblin_Rick
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Must win this weekend, win all but one of the remaining ACC games, and that should get it done. Not Easy.
Go Jackets! THWG
Go Jackets! THWG
Agree 100%. A win for them gives them a better chance than a win gives us. But if we want any shot at all, we must win. Then just win 1 of VT or Clemson.The problem is that the tiebreaker still might not be enough. Even if we beat them I can realistically see them winning the rest of their conference games...which means we'd have zero room for error if we assume a loss to Clemson.
It's a huge game, no doubt...but with them beating FSU, it's going to be really tough for us to win the division...even if we win Saturday.
Agree 100%. A win for them gives them a better chance than a win gives us. But if we want any shot at all, we must win. Then just win 1 of VT or Clemson.
The problem is that the tiebreaker still might not be enough. Even if we beat them I can realistically see them winning the rest of their conference games...which means we'd have zero room for error if we assume a loss to Clemson.
It's a huge game, no doubt...but with them beating FSU, it's going to be really tough for us to win the division...even if we win Saturday.
...which means we'd have zero room for error if we assume a loss to Clemson.
It's simple, just win all our Coastal games. Even if we falter to Clemson, we win the division.
Lose to Wake... good one.Nope. Division head to head is the 1st tie-breaker. GT could beat Miami but lose to Wake & Clem and Miami would win the division if GT was their only loss.
You've discovered the secret plan.Yep. As much as I'd love to beat Clemson, the VT game is the bigger of the two...division record comes into play with tiebreakers...plus we could always beat Clemson the second time we played them
Lose to Wake... good one.
We must win out, period. Don’t see two losses getting us in with the U holding serve.
On paper, GT is very much in the mix for the coastal race, only 1 loss out of 1st... but the path forward to actually winning the coastal is pretty crazy.
First, Miami has to have 2 losses in conference, since they have the H2H tie breaker on us. In other words, if we won out in ACC play and Miami only lost to, say, VT... we'd both be 7-1 and they would go to the ACCCG. So... that means to even entertain the conversation of playing for the ACCC, Miami must also lose a 2nd conference game. I doubt UNC can beat anyone... so that leaves it up to either Pitt or UVA to pull an upset.
If that upset occurred, and Miami lost to VT, Miami would be 6-2. One path at that point would be to win out (requiring wins over both VT at home and Clemson on the road.) Possible, but unlikely. The next scenario would require us to beat VT, so a Clemson loss could be allowed and maybe we can move forward.
If we beat VT and they win their remaining conference games, we would have a 3-way division tie at 6-2.
If you go to the tiebreaker rules, I'm not sure how it gets prioritized. We all would be 6-2, with Miami's losses both being division losses. I think that would eliminate them. That would leave us beating VT in a head to head.... but I'm really not sure if that's the way the tiebreakers get layered. We may actually get penalized for having a lower overall win% since we missed out on the UCF game.
If we could find a way to beat Clemson, that would go a LONG way to making the coastal seem feasible.